Re: Florida Lost ballots

Well, good luck. If I remember the mess in 2000 in Tally correctly, it was
pretty heinous. By all accounts it will be worse this year. I was watching
CNN at about 4am today; there was a story about "non-partisan voter
protection groups". Their stated aim was to prevent the sort of harrassment
at the polls that Jackson described in his post. The story made most of the
groups they interviewed look like zealots, bigots, or occassionally the
groups' intent appeared to actually be swaying votes.

CG

>Appellate court ruled that Ohio will be following the, 'provisional' voting
>form only counts if it is at the right polling place, or if it is cast down
>town at the board of elections office. This is what out Republican
>Secretary of State wanted - I think the case was Democratic Party of Ohio
>v. Kenneth Blackwell, or something to that effect. Dems choose not to
>appeal, so it will stand come Tuesday. Current fighting is over whether or
>not local boards of elections can hear challenges to voter registrations.
>Dems sued and got a lower court to order Blackwell to order the local
>boards to stop hearing challenges. Thus far Blackwell hasn't complied,
>although the deadline for complying is sometime later today.
>
>Only bright side of the whole mess here is that Columbus has more hotels
>and restaurants for the press than Tallahasse did, and since the Ohio
>State-Michigan game is here this year, the zoo here may be a slightly more
>comfortable zoo, but unless the polls are wrong, a zoo it will be. Aside
>from that Blackwell makes Kathrine Harris look like a liberal, and has a
>nack for side stepping, or plain old out politicking, the
>Moderate-Republican Governor, and as such will no doubt be called a
>partisan whether his intentions are honorable or not.
>
>From Mary Poppin's neighborhood,
>
>Justin

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